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posed…

01 Sunday Sep 2019

Posted by sulis303 in life, Photography, travel, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, bikers, cell phone, haircut, motorcycles, posed, purple, walk, widow

walked over to get a trim at Ultracuts after the rain stopped yesterday… came out very nice…

on my walk back home I came across a group of bikers at the gas station… made me giggle to see one person checking out their cell phone as they waited for others to get gas…

I asked if I might take his photo and he said yes and posed, lol… then I asked if he would go back to looking at his phone, because that was the shot I wanted…

upsell…

23 Saturday Mar 2019

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couple of great things over the last few days…

yesterday I was on the phone with MTS to check out some information about my cell phone…

the woman I spoke with was ever so helpful and didn’t try to upsell me during our discussion… really appreciated that…

at the end of our call she asked if there was anything else and I mentioned that I’d like to talk about the cost of all my services… I pay a lot for one person… she transferred me to another person…

that person noted that we’ve been loyal customers for over forty years and was impressed with that… he was able to provide an excellent discount for a whole year which made me exceptionally pleased… in the process, gave me a good discount on the house phone… I know, I know, how many of us are there left, lol…

made me happy…

and today, I received my tax information back and was pleased to discover that once again I am getting a refund… phew… my accountant has figured out exactly what I need to have deducted so that I don’t end up owing money at the end of the year…

the process of submitting them is so easy now… I courier the papers to the office, receive the documentation electronically, sign it, scan it, and send it back electronically as well, and then it is sent to CRA…

I think back to when my beloved did our taxes… he really disliked doing them and we were always searching to find all the documents we needed and do all the calculations… then put it in an envelope and mail it off, or drive to the Tax Office and drop it off because it was kind of late, lol…

I’ve found a system that helps me gather everything so that when it is time to do them, all the bits and pieces of paper are together;-)…

all good…

wifi…

01 Wednesday Mar 2017

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, cell phone, internet, MTS, remote, widow, wifi

just spent over half an hour on the phone with an MTS internet technician…

trying to figure out why my wifi keeps dropping from my phone…

been worried that I am going to get an ugly bill at the end of the month…

the person on the phone was very attentive and ran a number of tests as we talked…

a few weeks ago someone had called and offered a higher speed internet for six months at no charge and I had agreed to try it… the problems with my wifi seemed to start just after that…

after the testing it appears that the internet isn’t the cause of the problem…

but he couldn’t figure out what the problem is… he did mention lots of possibilities…

so, now I need to go to the MTS store and have them check out my phone…

way too much contact with MTS this week, sigh…

the new remote still doesn’t work with my tv and I’m supposed to ask for an older version of the remote…

we shall see…

technology…

29 Tuesday Jul 2014

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cell phone, email, encyclopedia, internet, Technology

been thinking about technology quite a bit lately…

when it works it makes everything go well… when it doesn’t it makes life so frustrating…

the changes over the last few years have been amazing…

can you even remember when you didn’t have a smartphone… or a laptop and/or tablet…

we purchased our first cell phone when our older daughter was sixteen as she was taking a road trip with a bunch of her friends… we wanted her to be connected if she needed help or had trouble with the van… that phone was large and cumbersome and didn’t work everywhere on the main highway…

and here I am, writing my blog on my iPhone and texting with my daughter at the same time…

earlier my other daughter was sending me pictures from Montreal where they are visiting for a few days…

while we were in a shoe store, in Fargo, North Dakota, the clerk went online and ordered shoes that they didn’t have in the store, and had them delivered to us at the border…

fifteen years ago email was just becoming a new tool… cannot imagine being without it now… and, on the phone, as well as the desktop and laptop and maybe even the tablet…

all of my kids watch movies on the computer…

people complete forms on their home computer and submit them online, or use an iPad when they arrive at the office… I remember trying to decipher handwriting and guessing what a name or phone number was supposed to be…

the internet has changed our lives… not sure if young people know what an encyclopedia is, lol…

I need to remember all the great things that technology helps us with, particularly when some of it might not be working at its best…

20140729-222009-80409601.jpgview of the pond tonight…

searching…

22 Saturday Mar 2014

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accountant, cell phone, MTS, searching, taxes

promised myself that I would gather up all the tax information today so I could get it to my fabulous accountant…

spent time going through files, folders and the mail to be sure I had all the necessary bits and pieces…

hope I found everything…

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then I decided to try and figure out which box had been unchecked when I was on the phone with the MTS people a couple of weeks ago – which meant that every time I opened email on the desktop all the email vanished off my phone…

probably spent thirty minutes searching to find the darn thing… finally gave up and called for help… lovely young woman was very helpful and we found it within about fifteen minutes… yay…

felt like those big girl pants were on for a good part of the day…

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